Label Bundle Giveaway! NOW ENDED!

It’s February and the growing season is slowly coming out of hibernation. Seeds are starting to be sown, perennials are showing signs of life and Spring bulbs are starting to pop out from underneath their layer of soil. It’s going to be a hectic few months so to make your life a little bit easier we’re giving away one set of our slate label bundles which includes 4 real slate labels, 4 small metal crooks and a fine waterproof chalkboard pen! Read more about the bundle here: http://www.lavenderandleeks.co.uk/shop/grow/4-slate-plant-labels-copy/

These are not only perfect for labeling and keeping track of rows but also look great next to perennial flowers, vegetables or fruit. And what’s even better is that the waterproof pen can be removed by using anything with ammonia in it (we use oven cleaner!) so they can be re-used again and again! All the metal work is handmade in Hampshire by my Dad and we cut the slate labels here too.

To enter simply comment below with your full name and what you are most looking forward to growing this year. All entrants must be from the UK only I’m afraid and the giveaway will end at 10pm on Saturday the 10th of February. The winner will be announced at 9am on Sunday, good luck!

Hi there Katie, I’m trying to introduce colleagues at work to try more interesting tomatoes each year as they seem afraid of anything that is not conventionally red and round, last year I introduced them to yellow pears and beautiful sweet sungolds and tigrellas, this year I’m trying lots of different green varieties 🙂

Good morning Katie! Great giveaway – I always manage to mislabel my seeds!
This year I am looking to grow some new edibles Oca, Achocha, Aztec Broccoli, Callaloo, Kabocha & Ute Indian squashes, Purple Shiso and Aji Lemon chilli.
Have a great day!

I’m really excited to grow our Pacific giant squash! They can get to 20kilo without much looking after and I think the record last year was a 60kilo squash! Must find a good squash soup recipe by autumn!! X

I always get the most joy from my potato harvest – so many stages to go through “yay,they’ve chitted” “yay,they’re growing” “yay,I’ve actually managed to earth them up” and all the time you have no idea what, if anything is developing down there. And then that first tentative dig……..and almost always the sheer wonder at such bounty and beauty. And it doesn’t end there ……..the taste, the flavour, the satisfaction, the pride! Yes, potatoes do it for me .

Well as a newbie I’m looking forward to growing potatoes, garlic, onions, carrots and lots of flowers. Our garden has had a makeover and leaves loads of room for me to experiment and experiment I will!

I have to admit..that it’s kinda like picking your favourite child..as to what i’my looking forward to growing..but last year, I was astounded at how the chrysanthemums I grew lasted as cut flowers.! Sarah Raven has some amazing varieties which I will attempt to grow in the “cutting garden”-!!

Those labels look great! I’m looking forward to growing peas and beans again this year, they are our favourite summer vegetable. I also want to grow purple sprouting broccoli, which I grow every year but last year didn’t get around to sowing the seed and I’ve missed not having them on the allotment.

I’m looking forward to growing everything!
I gave up my allotment last year so I’ve finally put raised beds into my tiny little town garden.
At last, I am able to grow plants that need deep roots.
I can’t decide what I am looking forward to growing the most, corn, sweet peas, or a new variety of tomato!!

I love these labels ❤ I’m relatively new to growing last year I grew onions, potatoes and a small selection of herbs. This year I’m growing onions, potatoes, garlic, spring onions and extending my herb’s (thank you for recommending the handmade apothecary- I love it 😊) I’m really excited to see how much I can get from my small garden space 😊

Hi Kate
We’re looking forward to planting our mixed variety of bulbs in March. Plan to get an old tin bath! Also looking forward to planting out more rainbow chard and trying sweet candle carrots to show at this year’s allotment show.

As a new allotmenteer, I am looking forward to growing everything!! I’ve still got a bit of clearing to do and raised beds to make and then I’ll be ready to start planning 🙂 Love your insta account – thanks for the inspiration x

Love these, I’ve only just started following you and I’ve not seen labels hanging before! It’s such a great idea, my labels are forever getting lost when the veg grows over them. I’d love some labels for my little herb garden I’m planning on growing.

Hi Katie my Allotment has been rather neglected over the last couple of years for one reason or another. You know how it is! This year I am aiming at growing a variety of crops including potatoes in buckets, runner beans, sweet corn and peppers alongside my fruit bushes. These plant labels are great and will help to spruce it up. Roll on Spring!

Good morning Katie. I’m most looking forward to using my heirloom seeds that I brought last year. I didn’t get to plant them as we had a surprise addition to the family, baby no.3! 😊 I have some beautiful sweetcorn I’m hoping to have some success with and some lovely berlotti beans I want to try.

Beautiful ! Love seeing what you are up to on your allotment. I’ve got a new veg patch at home so am growing lots .. potatoes, brassicas, beans , beetroot , salad crops , and lots of soft fruit… exciting

Just taken on plot no.2 and really excited about trying a pumpkin arch this year! Also will be planting up a dahlia bed and trying some new herbs, with lots of different mints for teas and some lovely rosemary. Just found some very hardy coriander whilstclearing the plot, so it looks like I’ve made a start on the herbs already!

Still a beginner with my little veggie patch, it’s my favorite place to be. Beetroot grew well last year but the broccoli has gone a bit weird and sweetcorn was rock hard. I love seeing what you do on your plot. Very inspiring, I think I’ll be trying to grow more salad options this year so the slate labels would be brilliant. X

I just got my allotment late last year and I’ve been super inspired by your posts. I’m looking forward to growing little white “peekaboo” pumpkins ready for later in the year. I have set aside a large space for a cut flower garden and I can’t wait to grow some dahlias to cut and bring home. Fab competition. Good luck everyone, x

Hi Katie , I am looking forward to growing some new rocket seeds I found called ” dragons tongue ” sounds interesting !
I came very close to giving up my allotment this year because of time commitments but I quickly realised it’s in my blood
Now and I just am going to have to put other commitments back a little ….I can’t be happy without my allotment now !

We haven’t got a very big plot but we try to cram in as much as possible! I’m looking forward to growing potatoes (Charlotte variety), beetroot, courgettes (yellow), onions (mixed variety), and edge the plot with the gloriously scented Spencer Sweet Peas. Ahhhh..Summer!

Can’t wait to get back in the garden this year, we only grew pumpkins last year as my baby was due at the end of June and I knew I would have my hands full. I would like to try planting some butternut squash and maybe look at a few other varieties too. Carrots are always a family favourite too. 😍
Katie Ebbs

As I commented on your dungarees post, your blog inspired me to start growing my own vegetables and flowers.So this this month, will be my first time growing from seed. I’m excited about the learning process ahead, but in particular about growing tomatoes.🍅🍅

Wow such a Great competition. I’m most looking forward to growing sweet peas, I’m trying some different varieties this year and always find they are so simply to grow, such sweet smells, beautiful colours and with a long flowering season what’s not to love about the humble sweet pea.

Oh what aren’t I looking forward to those amazing tomatoes, bortollo beans fresh herbs and sweet peas to name a few the only things you can achieve growing your own . I cant wait 😆❤ fabulous set of labels would lovely in my garden very ornate happy nearly spring totally excited now lol

😍 these look amazing!! I have an allotment with my Dad and he wants to grow the basics but I’ve got my >>😍 eyes set on ALLL the pumpkins, rainbow carrots and all the different coloured beetroots 😋 So excited! Have followed your IG for a while and now it looks like it’s going to be my Bible 🙈 Thank you for the lovely give away opportunity!!! 🥕🌽🍆 xx

I’m most looking forward to growing – absolutely anything! Last year the woodlice ate every scrap of everything I planted, and I have worked tirelessly to get everything off the ground and into containers that woodlice don’t like or can’t access. On top of that I now
have 6 little chickens who are happily chomping their way through the population, so I’m hopeful that this year the odd seedling might survive. Survive the woodlice anyway. Now I just have to work out how to keep them safe from the chickens!

I’m really looking forward to growing pumpkins and beans this year as these seem to be the only vegetables that my son is interested in growing.. beans because he can make a camp using the bamboo sticks and pumpkins because of Halloween.. but hopefully this year I can introduce some more exciting fruit and veg.. any ideas would be great.. thank you

What a wonderful giveaway, Katie! I would so love to win something that’s been handmade by your dad! The plant labels will fit my mantra that nothing can enter my shed unless it has been handmade, gifted or thrifted!

What I am most looking forward to growing this year are Honey Boat squash (from Sutton’s seeds). I had an unusually successful year for squash and this one is meant to be particularly sweet! Thanks for the chance to win, lovely!

I’m looking forward to finishing off growing my baby 🙂 due next month! Plant wise though I’m really hoping to concentrate a bit more on flowers this year rather than vegetables, and maybe successfully grow sweet peas for the first time as I never seem to get them right!

Ahhhhh finally found it (plot bg) ha it’s my first year on the new allotment so looking forward to growing everything! However I’m looking forward to trying my hand at honeysuckle as my nan always used to grow it so it will be like ‘re living my childhood 🙂 when I started watching youtube videos you were one of the first people I come across 🙂 even if I don’t win I think this is fab!

Hi Katie, last week I discovered your website and have been so enjoying all your posts (I have gone back to the beginning and am reading them all!!). Also last week I got my first allotment – soooooo excited! So this year I am looking forward to growing EVERYTHING! I have been really wanting to grow the pumpkin Munchkin having seen it on your sight and have ordered some seed of that and want to get some arches for it to grow over. I have been considering a wildlife pond and I am planning where it might go and want to grow lots of flowers as well as vegetables and fruit….. at this time of year, when the weeds are few, anything seems possible! Keep up your wonderfully, inspiring posts.

Thanks for the chance to win those lovely slate markers. I’m going to grow a flower cutting garden to fill all my many vases and also looking forward to growing pumpkins for the grandchildren, potatoes, leeks and broccoli for soups and lots of lettuce, tomatoes and pea pods for salads xx

I’ve just taken on my first half plot and i’m sooooo excited about it!
I have a bed for cut flowers and can’t wait to try growing beautiful dahlias, sweet peas and peonies.
Blueberries, Butternut squash and Chard are my favourite to eat so I’m keen to try and grow my own this year (fingers crossed)
I love reading your blog and Instagram as it gives me such inspiration.

Looking forward to getting my soft fruit bed up and running. Raspberries, strawberries and hopefully a blueberry bush or two if I’m lucky. Also attempting brussels sprouts again (snails got to mine last year) and always sweet peas. Must have sweet peas!

I’m really looking forward to growing lots of vegetables with the toddlers in my “muddy buddies” group a group for little people aged 0-5 out in all weathers exploring the great outdoors, nature and growing things together 🌱 these labels will be perfect for marking our seeds and plants as we grow them! x

I’ve acquired a section of land between my garden and the field behind. It was thick with brambles, 6ft nettles and many other nasty weeds. I wrote to my local council and asked to buy or take on the land with a view of teaching my 4 year old son where his favourite fruit and veg come from. He’s a fruit and veg monster. Fast forward 6 Months I’ve just put my shed in and levelled the grown and built my raised beds. Now for planting. I can’t wait to get growing at home. I’m hoping I do well with my carrots and also my raspberry’s. To win some really tasteful labels would round it off a treat.

I have 7 different types of squashes that I’m looking forward to trying, but honestly, I’m hoping and looking forward the most to growing sweet peas. My plot was raided by rabbits and deer last year and they ate all the sweet peas before they flowered. Such simple beauty in those flowers so fingers crossed I’ll get to see some this year!

My cottage garden has fruit bushes mixed with parsley, rocket, and any seeds or plants I take a fancy to. I am naughty about snipping off cuttings that lean over a garden wall or fence. A fig tree cutting eventually gave me a dozen fruits last year, wonderful reminder of my New Zealand home.
I keep some dandelions as they taste spicy with lettuce and are full of nutriments. My garden will be a year of surprises as I sow the cheapest from the pound shop with the poshest from Sarah Raven.
Many foxglove seeds and lupin seeds saved from last year will be scattered and butterfly bushes mixed with honeysuckle cuttings, roses and clematis for the bumble bees.
Belle Epoch have been generously fed to face our Northern climes and like most fellow gardeners, I am brimming with optimism.
Contact with nature is so healing and healthy and I am lucky with hubby growing so many organic veggies in his plot.
Our neighbouring farmer gifts us a trailer of manure in exchange for computer help from my husband, that is a wonderful exchange for both.

I’m looking forward to growing Chard Bright Lights with my four and eight year old nephews who love the radiant colours. Also looking forward to growing Violetta Beans and rows and rows of peas, I could go on and on, I love my allotment 😊😊🌱🌱

These are lovely. My husband and I are growing veggies for the first time this year. We have converted a flower bed and we are going to remove some old shrubs to create a raised bed when it isn’t quite so cold! I’ll be looking for lots of advice on your website.

Hi Katie
I’m looking forward to growing everything I can 😂 but maybe looking forward to trying to grow a flower cutting patch, inspired by Sarah Raven and her books the most, so that I can cut my own beautiful flowers 💐🌷 for my house and for friends 😊💕 xx

Wow these are fab! I’m most looking forward to growing tomatoes again this year. Last year was my first attempt and I didn’t pinch them out properly so ended up with ginormous tomato monster plants with not so much fruit….this year I’ve done my reading and made a frame to tie them too and will pinching out left right and centre 😁

I love my allotment-its my tiny bit of paradise-overlooking the Wye Downs in Kent. This year my “new thing to grow” is Cavolo nero. I just love those dark crinkly leaves and so I am really looking forward to growing my own and seeing how it turns out. Fingers crossed

Hi. We have just signed for our allotment a few weeks ago! It’s our first time owning one so we are a bit new to it all! I have 3 young boys and want to include them as much as we can. We are looking forward to getting our allotment tidied up and hopefully being able to grow vegetables we use with our Sunday dinner as a starting point and hopefully progress next year to growing more once we begin to get the hang of everything! Love your page so far it’s really helped me put a plan in place for what we are wanting to achieve 😊 x

I can’t wait to grow tomatoes again this year on my allotment. Nothing beats the smell of tomato plants in the summer! And looking forward to attempting sweetcorn again this year, hoping they won’t all get demolished like they did last year!

I’m looking forward to having a proper herb bed this year. We had to have our rotten deck replaced last summer and so got them to build raises planters at the same time. Love cooking with herbs so it’s going to be wonderful to have them just outside the back door!

Brilliant plant labels and stands, really looking forward to growing strawberry sweetcorn this year which is a popcorn never grown them before got them at a seed swap, favourite time when spring bulbs are starting to grow and flower

we have just taken on our first allotment plot and we have onions and garlic in already but I am most excited about munchkin pumpkins! I got some seeds after watching you grow them and roast them ! I am hoping they will be lovely autumn food ! thanks for a great YouTube channel and blog!

I have just taken on an additional half plot and a vegetable patch at a friend’s house so I am looking forward to trying to grow crops continuously all year round! Every vegetable is my favourite to grow at the time until the next one wants harvesting!

Hi Katie this is my first plot and after watching your vidios and following your blogs you have inspired me to join in the fun of growing and other then my favorite yellow sunflowers I am most looking forward to trying some red ones and also some climbing strawberries well excited keep the tips coming thank you. 🙂

What a lovely idea Katie for u and your dad to do.
I’m really looking forward to growing one of your favourite recommendations and that’s Swiss chard bright lights! Never tried it but I’m sure I will love it
Also I’m going to grow for the 1st time is spaghetti squash
Xx

Hi Katie!
I’ve just got a new allotment so am starting from scratch again AND I’m having a baby in the spring 🤰🏻I’m most looking forward to growing munchkin pumpkins (they did really well on my old plot last year- 32 pumpkins from 4 plants! Hopefully I can do the same on my new plot this year!) and some beautiful, tasty rainbow chard. I’m really looking forward to growing fruit and veg to ween my little boy onto when he is ready so I know he is getting all of the goodness he needs! X

Hi Katie 🙂
I’ve just been offered my first half size plot which I’m super excited about so as you can imagine I’m excited to grow everything! The thing I’m most excited to grow are the Sarah Raven climbing munchkin pumpkins. You’ve completely inspired me with plot 15C and I can’t wait to get some pumpkins and sweet peas climbing up an arch. I did a huge Sarah Raven order last week so I’m looking forward to start planting as soon as possible. I also managed to get some giant sunflower seeds which I’ll be planting up at home with my daughters so we can see who can grow the biggest one (this is what we would be using the slate labels for).
Looking forward to your next YouTube video. Take care.

Hello, I’m looking forward to growing so many things in year two on my new allotment. But particularly looking forward to sweet peas, seeds already in, some blight-resistant tomatoes and more dahlias. My son is getting married in August and his partner wants some of my flowers for her bouquet. What an honour x

I have just been offered my first allotment so I am so excited to be starting off on my allotment journey! You are an absolute allotment angel and have given me lots of advice and tips as I am a complete novice.

I discovered a love of Dahlias late on last year, so I’m looking forward to growing different varieties, especially for the bees.
I’m also looking forward to growing tomatoes, it’s the only fruit/veg I seem to be good at growing!

Hello, I’m looking forward to growing more cut flowers as this is only our second year with the allotment. Also growing my 2yr olds interest of growing and picking our own fruit and Veg. Strawberry picking off our patch was definitely a highlight for her last year! X

I’m looking forward to growing everything this year! I’ve just moved house and have a clean slate to start growing again in the garden and I have my name down on the waiting list for the allotments opposite to my house! But until then I’m probably looking forward to starting a ‘cutting’ Flower garden as I haven’t ever given that a go, and as always potatoes as homegrown potatoes are the very best!

Hi Katie. I’ve just bought loads of seeds and I always have to stop myself from getting carried away and buying too many. It’s difficult to pick, but I’m looking forward to growing cucamelons this year. Apparently a cross between a melon and cucumber (bet they were up all night thinking of the name!). They are quite small and are best grown in a greenhouse I believe.
Love seeing your updates on instagram xx

This year I’m really looking forward to growing chilli’s in my greenhouse. I think it will be a nice addition to my tomatoes when making pasta sauce! Love your blog and YouTube, it’s great for inspiration. 🍅🌶️🍝

Hello there! I’m in the process of planning my plot and have some new seeds I’m trying out. Asturias tree cabbage which is a perennial, huauzontle aztec broccoli which I plan on planting in my borders and Cherokee trail of tears climbing bean which hails from the Cherokee nation! Have a great day x

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